The Third World War

When Thieves Fall Out

The 8th Congress of the world’s largest Communist Party, which has just finished its sessions at Peiping, did not produce any news judged spectacular by the world press. Still, it was not without incident. To a Communist mind, for example, and to those able to project their view through a Communist lens, it was a more than minor item that the Congress—the first since 1945—declared the “bourgeois democratic” phase of the Chinese revolution to be ended. The Chinese “New Democracy,” as Mao had named it, has now shifted to an early form of the “proletarian dictatorship,” able to set its course more directly toward “socialism.”

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When Thieves Fall Out

The 8th Congress of the world’s largest Communist Party, which has just finished its sessions at Peiping, did not produce any news judged spectacular by the world press. Still, it was not without incident. To a Communist mind, for example, and to those able to project their view through a Communist lens, it was a more than minor item that the Congress—the first since 1945—declared the “bourgeois democratic” phase of the Chinese revolution to be ended. The Chinese “New Democracy,” as Mao had named it, has now shifted to an early form of the “proletarian dictatorship,” able to set its course more directly toward “socialism.”